Grails not updating database

I changed the relevant part of Data Source.groovy to the following: Every time I restart the server, all the data has disappeared. I have tried it both with and without sample data in Boot Strap.groovy (if that makes any difference).

The database migration plugin allows you to keep track of the structural changes made to your database.

You can change your url to point to a file or relational database, though, if you want to persist w/out using Boot Strap.groovy. url = "jdbc:h2:db/dev Db;auto_server=true" Here's an example using my Sql (assuming you have a jdbc driver for mysql available): url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:8080/foo?